A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets

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Pierre-Richard Agenor

The University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences

Nadeem Ul Haque

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Peter J. Montiel

Williams College - Department of Economics

Date Written: February 1991

Abstract

The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical treatment. A simulation approach, based on parameters derived from estimates in the existing literature, is used to assess the properties of the model, which differ in important ways from those of standard open-economy models.

JEL Classification: 131, 431

Suggested Citation

Agenor, Pierre-Richard and Ul Haque, Nadeem and Montiel, Peter J., A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets (February 1991). IMF Working Paper No. 91/18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=884628

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